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POEM: Driving through paintings

Verses in appreciation of autumn.

INTERVIEW: A candid conversation with drummer Ulysses Owens Jr. on music, mentorship, and the fight to preserve culture

The three-time Grammy-winning drummer headlines Tanglewood with his band Generation Y on November 7.

ROPE to host Nov. 8 fundraiser to expand leadership and global learning programs for girls of color and nonbinary youth

The event will support mentorship, travel, and college-readiness opportunities for Berkshire students.

The railroad you didn’t learn about in school: Silkroad’s ‘American Railroad’ brings hidden histories to the Mahaiwe Saturday, Nov. 8

The performance highlights the contributions of Indigenous, African American, and immigrant workers—stories often left out of U.S. history books.

AT THE TRIPLEX: Who do you believe in ‘Bugonia’?

"Bugonia" reads like a plea to break free of the doomed mindset that increasingly feels like the status quo. We have to do something, anything, to save this world—no matter how crazy it may seem.

Catching up on two concerts, Part Two: The ‘Joy of Sextets,’ renewed — Dvořák and Ortiz at the Linde Center

This is music that never really stands still, and the entire half-hour duration of the work seemed to go by in a flash of fresh inspiration and good spirits.

PREVIEW: New film asks, ‘How can we help young people feel like this is a place where you can create a life?’

"Impact in the Berkshires" centers on the work of the Community Development Corporation of South Berkshire (CDCSB) and features interviews with about two dozen local business owners, legislators, residents of CDCSB-managed properties, and the organization’s board and staff.

Close Encounters with Music presents ‘”The Golem” — A vision in Sound and Cinema’ with the Avalon String Quartet on Sunday, Nov. 2

Since when does the Avalon String Quartet require a conductor? Since it started performing music synchronized with film.

Eugene Drucker on Bach’s enduring power: ‘Each New Age Finds Relevance in Its Own Way’

The Emerson Quartet violinist and Berkshire Bach artistic director discusses Bach’s reach across genres ahead of the “Bach & Friends” screening at Tanglewood's Linde Center for Music and Learning on Nov. 8.

Gavin Ewart and Brit Light Verse

Overall, the definition of light verse is poetry designed to be entertaining and amusing. The poems tend to be brief and often feature clever wordplay.

AT THE TRIPLEX: Lyrical genius

The hard work of bringing a song to life—and the toll it takes on its authors—fuels two films coming to The Triplex this week.

FILM REVIEW: ‘Rebuilding’ directed by Max Walker-Silverman

The film unfolds in a striking rural mountain setting in Colorado, where a wildfire has burned and disfigured a large portion of the landscape and destroyed the ranch of the film’s central character.

Catching up on two concerts: Part One

It seems apt that a program which demonstrates the diversity of cultural influences characteristic of American music should serve to support a community library, where minds can be opened and local neighbors can learn about their ties to the larger national family.

PREVIEW: Chamber folk group Skye Consort returns to The Foundry on Wednesday, Oct. 29

Tickets to this show will sell out faster than you can say "Trans-Atlantic Chamber Folk."

THEATER REVIEW: WAM Theatre’s production of ‘1999’ plays at Shakespeare & Co.’s Bernstein Theatre through Nov. 2

It is always good to be a part of a new play’s emergence, and this one offers so much it should be your goal to see it, feel it, and give the actors what they need.

PREVIEW: Interactive showcase blends storytelling, music, and dance at Tanglewood’s Linde Center on Sunday, Oct. 26

Storyteller Baba Israel and saxophonist Sean Nowell join dancers Audrey Thao Berger and B-Boy Spidey for a morning of rhythm, poetry, and creative expression at the Linde Center.

THEATER REVIEW: ‘Rope’ plays at Hartford Stage through Nov. 2

This is a play worth its weight in sea salt, a commodity not unlike murder in the grand theatrical sense. I hoped it would be good but it wasn’t good—it was great.